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Kyan O'Rourke - 6 years ago

Where are the small wave ones

Kyan O'Rourke - 6 years ago

300th comments

thekyledebacker - 6 years ago

3:20 wavelengths hat

conspiracies are just great stories - 6 years ago

Why don't you have videos like this every year? I love this video and 2015-2017 deserves the same treatment

Piran Fehlbaum - 6 years ago

Holy Fucking Shit

William Austin Smith - 6 years ago

8:02 best footage

Mitchie_the_bitchie - 6 years ago

I feel bad.

Chase Listorti - 6 years ago

4:58 how did I even get into this situation

tracy smith - 6 years ago

Alex Gray is a great story teller.

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Kirstyn Hairston - 6 years ago

When the one guy said 60 70 feet I was like boy why ever ride a wave that high you are weird because no one I know they would not do that

DannyTK0 - 6 years ago

My father once got his leash stuck on some reef on some big repetitive waves he wrote a book about the experience its an amazing story and he has had many other experiences so be sure to go check him out he does surf tours in Oahu really nice guy and great tour guide his name is Richard and goes by Rich stay safe out there guys http://dickssurftrips.com/

Fuse Fire - 6 years ago

Being pounded by one of these waves is like holding you breath the
Is whole vid

Fadila Kader - 6 years ago

entitle lead assumption cell formal hotel buck we bring defense tradition

MatthewShashy - 6 years ago

"And I was like AH SHIT Skip was one that wave too. I hope I didn't just create a GnARly accident" but for some reason accident is said kinda gayley

Adolf Hitler - 6 years ago

that leg was cool

Etienna Bagley-Jones - 6 years ago

pause at 6:23

Diego Salgado - 6 years ago

5:56 holly shit

Eibhlín Murphy - 6 years ago

Rest In Peace jay moriarity. Always a legend

Maxwell Smart_086 - 6 years ago

"Surfing USA" - the Beach Boys....fun..fun...fun - looks these pros have to put their lives/health at risk to make money - that´s not having fun surfin´ - that´s the end of fun, health and/or life. Anybody thinking of their wife, kids, parents, grandparents????????

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Dennis Nedry - 6 years ago

6:25 OMG that’s what starring at death looks like

Joe Spears - 6 years ago

Damn…then here’s me when I stab my toe I’m crying for 30mins

Dis Count - 7 years ago

biggest wave I ever got was from my wife as she paddled out

Misty Forests - 7 years ago

I can barely even handle getting tossed into the cauldron of a 7 foot wave. I don't know how these guys do it.

Helen Kennedy - 7 years ago

Much respect.

Billy's Plushies - 7 years ago

Dalton v - 7 years ago

Maverick's seems to have a lot of bad ones

sacha MARZIN - 7 years ago

super

Flight Sim Joe - 7 years ago

I've seen a few people in the comments saying "these guys are pussies it's just water" and all I want, is for them to go stand at one of the spots mentioned in this video, and watch those 70ft waves come rolling in, and then I want you to ride that same wave and not wipe out, and not get pounded, and not get trapped under water without knowing which way is up. These are real men in the videos, and I don't know about you but I can't even begin to imagine 20ft wave at my local beach.

Eva Bergant - 7 years ago

These guys are INSANE. Man. I got wiped out once, by a wave about 3 metres high. I got rolled over like 5 times and landed on the beach (thank god it was sand) with my mouth full of sand, scratched all over and dizzy from all the spinning. Even such a small wave is so powerful, you can't imagine until you've experienced it.. It seems like a miracle to me what those guys survived..

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Harrison Kelly - 7 years ago

Its just water, what a bunch of pussies

Flight Sim Joe - 7 years ago

Harrison Kelly Why don't you go try it out, I think it would be a great learning experience for all of us wimps to see how a real man would do surfing a 70ft wave.

EDD - 7 years ago

What's the best way to brace in a wipeout, curl up into a ball protecting your head?

atmosphere Adr - 6 years ago

thats correct !

DavesPride - 7 years ago

I haven't seen anyone say sunset? And I've been going through the comments for a good 10 minutes

John Fraser - 7 years ago

These waves are no fucking joke.

Vasily Klyukin II - 7 years ago

5:57 that is not a wave, that is a fucking demon

John Grove - 7 years ago

miracle all of you survived, those were all nasty

Sun Gaming - 7 years ago

All these people are lucky they did not drown when they got nocked out.

Tom Kodatsky - 7 years ago

Would love some feedback on my Cinematic Vlogs before I begin creating again. Subscribing to all who comment below. We all know the grind, lets do it together.

Baba Bootay - 7 years ago

3:40 the Scotty Cranmer of surfing

pbaylis1 - 7 years ago

7:45 He came real close to making that.

Noah Fleischman - 7 years ago

His leg at 7:26

Jalon Floyd - 7 years ago

the guy at 3:40 looks just like Scotty cranked the bmx rider.

oliver jack - 7 years ago

Its just water... pussies

Shady - 7 years ago

5:01 fuck, what a wipeout

TheRedPanda - 7 years ago

777 days ago

Interioroutbreak69 - 7 years ago

I liked the reaction of the other guys at 6:18

Sleeping Lion - 7 years ago

I got a question. How do surfers pop their head out the back of the wave when goin over the falls? Sometimes you'll see them with their head out of the water while goin over on a 20 foot lip. How do they do this? Do they swim to that point? Or does it just happen naturally?

Gman - 7 years ago

When u see their heads at the top of the wave their just about to be pounded because the wave brings you to the top then dumps you because you get stuck in the wave

Gman - 7 years ago

Sleeping Lion when u fall of before it breaks you get sucked up and stuck in the wave kind of like a tornado how it sucks things up, on a wave it sucks u up and then dumps you on your head. Not sure what ur asking though

Zane Kelvinator - 8 years ago

All courageous men. But I was held under at Bells Beach for six minutes last winter. Six. Fucking. Minutes. It was scary conditions - between 18-30 foot sets rolling through on a wicked ground swell from a 9.8 mag quake in Antarctica. I got smacked on a mid-sized set, head-first into the reef. Boom! Blood everywhere. I tried to come up for air, but I kept getting drilled by the next set, deeper and deeper under the surface. Eventually, I realized I had to swim along the seafloor to the shoreline, or I'd die. I reckon I swum underwater for 800 meters, easily. My Dad was there that day, and he estimated I was under for about six minutes. I broke my left foot pretty badly and lost both my knee-caps. I also twisted my hip and distorted my heart a bit. Peace surfing people.

Mattias Nelson - 7 years ago

Maybe you made a mistake but there never been a 9.8 earth quake

Tomas Bensch - 7 years ago

Zane Kelvinator Lol

phapnui - 7 years ago

177 meters is 2016 world record swim underwater, taking 3 minutes and 4 seconds. Your data suggests you swam over 5 mph in your distance/time. Michael Phelps swims 6 mph in a pool for limited distance. Do you wish to change your story or declare you are a tuna fish?

HyTz Vorkkz - 7 years ago

That may be the biggest pile of utter bullshit i have ever heard

S1ngItBack - 7 years ago

Zane Kelvinator you didn't swim nearly a kilometer without breathing you fucking idiot...

Lucy Opunui - 7 years ago

Zane Kelvinator

Andy Hay - 7 years ago

Zane Kelvinator I'm sorry that happened to you

MIKI-WAWA - 8 years ago

:-O

JonDeBerg - 8 years ago

At the 1:09 mark- Is that Miley Cyrus with a beard?!

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Justin Brandt - 8 years ago

That is cool

Clempt90 - 8 years ago

So, why isn't there scars all over these people ? I smell bullshit

Sleeping Lion - 7 years ago

Clempt90 there actually IS scars all over lots of them. I think laird Hamilton has something like a total of 250 stitches over his lifetime of surfing so far. I've seriously sliced my head a few times, broken a few noses, almost drowned, fucked up my tailbone to where I couldent walk for a month, and some more that I know I'm not remembering , oh yeah, been knocked out by my board hitting my head, seen great whites out there. And I've only maxed out at like 15 foot waves, so far. So......

Ben_ _Usher - 7 years ago

Clempt90 the water is going to scrape and cut them up?

Misty OjaiGirl - 8 years ago

"all sweet..."

Boom Blue - 8 years ago

Same

Don - 8 years ago

This is the way i lost my goggles xD

MySpeed - 8 years ago

And I complain about the beach's waves being tiny...

Tiwers - 8 years ago

I'll stick to bodyboarding 3-5 foot waves

Don - 8 years ago

good idea

Gabriel Lutz - 8 years ago

Virginia has no waves over 6 ft, and still a wipeout on a 5ft wave scares the hell out of me. but big waves are fun though.

Flight Sim Joe - 7 years ago

Gabriel Lutz or if you use a long board/paddle board

Gabriel Lutz - 7 years ago

+David Woo you can surf any wave if you are good enough, so...

David Woo - 7 years ago

I live in Virginia and there are no waves so

Gabriel Lutz - 7 years ago

David Woo only once a month type of waves, at the jetty.

David Woo - 7 years ago

Gabriel Lutz where do you surf that has 5 foot waves

Brian Struck - 8 years ago

I got wiped out hard today and I've gained much more respect for the power of the ocean haha

SAltY FIlms - 8 years ago

+brady stewart AHAHAH

Stephen Jones - 8 years ago

"....arms and feet inside the vehicle at all times..." CLASSIC!!

J A M I 3 - 7 years ago

Mr Grape Butter lmao bruh that's a fucking HEAD INJURY THIS IS DEATH

GAPLORD - 8 years ago

+Mr Grape Butter yeah but I was never a big surfer in the first place so... yeah

Mr Grape Butter - 8 years ago

Thats a dumb reason to give up. I saw a kid land in his head snowboarding 40 ft gap on the jump. He ended up upside down halfway down the landing. Ambulance came he had the worst concussion you could think of, neck damage everything. He was back 2 days later and we were hitting the jump. I don't know what it's like to see someone die but you really, if you love something, need to keep going.

Meltshotmasta420 - 8 years ago

That's insane. And I have never seen a wave form like it did on the last one! Some crazy shit lol

brady stewart - 8 years ago

I think I'll stick to bogie boarding 1 foot waves

Luca Santoro - 6 years ago

I reckon 4 feet at most for me

Micah Schaeffer - 7 years ago

I’ll do 3 ft

speed force - 8 years ago

DERF CLAN members iyfjfjv

Captain Chicken - 8 years ago

GiZmo

DERF CLAN - 8 years ago

same

RonnieBavs - 8 years ago

Good idea

Yash Patel - 8 years ago

awsm vdeo salute to these surfers

LuckyLucy - 8 years ago

One time my friend Sal caught a board to the scrotilia from a big breaking wave and his voice changed up higher a few octaves.

Ben Goldberg - 8 years ago

Rip sal

ScotSpeed - 8 years ago

wow. this video absolutely delivers 110% of what the title says. not just some cheesy compilation, but actual great hd footage with quick short interviews even! wtf?!?

amazing! thanks for this. time to check out the other years' wipeouts!

Kevin King - 8 years ago

I appreciate the honesty of the wiped and the injured from their risk taking. I took a risk and seriously injured myself. These videos tell the story that most short clips don't

nv vam - 8 years ago

Years ago I was body boarding at Sandy beach. On that day there was a storm off the coast, maybe 20-30 miles out. The waves were about twice as big as normal. I am guessing around 15 feet or more. Anyways I misjudged the speed of the on coming wave and didn't dive under. Instead I quickly turned around facing the sand hoping to catch it. I got sucked up and went over the falls head first. My body was twisting and contorting. I was held under maybe 15 seconds and the second wave held me under. I remember when I came to the surface I was very tired and a little shocked. I headed to the sand to rest. I didn't return to the ocean that day.

gangsterboogie - 8 years ago

so you were on molokai?

Tyler Locke - 8 years ago

These are true men.

David Walker - 8 years ago

I ate shit on a two footer one time.

stoneygreek - 8 years ago

i live in michigan. the biggest wave i ever surfed was around 90 feet high. while doing a handstand. with a drink on my board. and a naked girl with big boobies. those were the days. groovy man.

Augustus Bromley - 6 years ago

Mate nazare I caught a 100 footer while holding a dab the whole way

Ben Green - 6 years ago

Okwy

I ate your chocolate while you were reading my name - 6 years ago

stoneygreek same i surfed a 1 mile high wave while i was fucking a girl with a fat ass and i was eating dinner while playing ps4 pro with my 100 inch tv, ahh the good old days

Eric Kelly - 7 years ago

One time I was in Antarctica on the yearly ice surfing trip, but this time when I went to grab the 100 footer, I got to the top and it FROZE SOLID! I was stuck there for a few days with my feet frozen in, but I dug out a frozen penguin and snacked on him to stay alive. I had to knaw off my own feet to get out and hike across the frozen ocean all the way back to Dubai. But I engineered my own robotic feet and the have hidden guns, rocket boosters etc.

Oliver GoPro Surf - 8 years ago

The biggest wave Iv ever court was 21ft I got crushed

Jonas Frandsen - 8 years ago

same bruh I've surfed 50 meters in the Amazon River while piranhas ate my right big toe

Gum Control - 8 years ago

what does it feel like to be hit by a 20+ footer?

Rose Smith - 8 years ago

1 time I was so excited cause I was in the ocean and a big wave was coming and the curve hit my uper back and it was way to big for boogie board

OmgDogeInDahHood - 8 years ago

Wow that's insane!

Steve Carey - 8 years ago

On that last wave it's amazing the guy came as close to making it as he did. First he overcame one freefall then came not too far from making the second freefall. That's some serious skill. And the wave at Belharra (6 minute mark) is one of the biggest paddle in waves I've ever seen. I don't know how these guys get the courage to paddle into something like that. We get 15 footer faces in the winter where I live and those beasts scare the hell out of me.

jprzcrprz - 8 years ago

Scary ass wipeouts..especially Shipsterns..That's one ugly wall of water

Jeff H - 8 years ago

+jprzcrprz Is that the last one, it looked vicious.

379buzz - 8 years ago

Awesome post! My biggest wipeout, was back in the late 70's. Imperial Beach, South of San Diego was breaking 20ft faces, twice as big as I'd ever seen it. I dropped in on a glassy left, made it to the bottom, (Riding a 10' 2" Con longboard no leash) I knew I was in trouble when I made the turn, and stalled. I looked up to see a barrel you could've driven a semi-truck through! I had that brief moment of, "This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!" Then suddenly it got very dark, and I tried to bail. Diving into the wave, I got that last breath (thank God) got suck over the falls and felt a building crush me into a sandy bottom. I started to try and struggle towards the surface, immediately realizing that, that wasn't going to happen! I pulled in my arms and legs in, curled up like a potato bug, and conserved what oxygen I had left from that last breath. Weightlessly, I went over the falls a second time, hoping nothing would get snapped off my body at the bottom. I was locked in the washing machine. Then a third time, weightlessness, as I went up and over the falls yet again! I finally felt that wave decide to release me, and I pushed off the bottom to the surface! I inhaled hard, sweet air of life!!! I then turtled under a smaller second wave, taking another beating, not nearly as bad as the first. I finally stood up in waist deep water and made my way to the beach. I was completely out of gas, lucky to be alive. I went back out 30 minutes later. :)

Mish Ham - 6 years ago

379buzz nice memory to remember the 70s

Gui V - 8 years ago

+379buzz That's pretty awesome, worst wipeout i ever had was here in Brazil in Jaguaruna, waves there go from 2 to 5 meters (it must have been 2 meters at the time) , and its almost always crowded. Me and another surfer accidentally hit eachother and my leg got stuck on his leash, i fell without catching a breath first, being dragged by his board until the end of the wave, and when i got to the surface my board hit my face, but i was fine after that. Not as awesome as yours, but it was pretty scary.

Michael Morrell - 8 years ago

white guys

Chris S - 8 years ago

AND - what you dont' get from the video is that the water at Mavericks is cold as balls. Not just a little chilly, but ice cream headache cold. Makes it hard to hold your breath for very long.

Loleta Vonsturman - 8 years ago

Why do the Ozzies bitches say "like" three times in one sentence? you may surf a big wave but you are still a bitch, if in articulate.

Stu McLellan - 7 years ago

Loleta Vonsturman Inarticulate is one word.

Howard Neely - 9 years ago

I admire their courage, amazing stuff.

dondamon356 - 9 years ago

how the fuck do your survive this shit , even small waves completly destroy me

jvdv - 9 years ago

Was 6:25 not shipstern bluff?

twokgti - 9 years ago

I been surfing in Hawaii since i was 2 years old. Never want to surf waves as big has these guys. I like having my limbs where they are.

eclipseNF - 9 years ago

sure

Xcalabre gaming - 9 years ago

wow

Antonio Mesquita - 9 years ago

Big Waves but nothing compare to Nazaré Portugal

whydotheheathensrage - 8 years ago

+Antonio Mesquita well that wave when its breaking big, is for the top one percent of surfers. If a mid range surfer goes out on a 50 - 100 foot wave, he's asking for trouble

Amr Hassan - 9 years ago

ooooh

Josue - 9 years ago

How do you handle a wipeout?

Lee Skuba - 9 years ago

Hold your breath and hope for the best my friend.... Nah usually when your wiped out your told to stay calm, which is hard to do. And just swim up and when you find your board gtfo of there lol, some surfers also have a tag they pull to rise to the surface faster I'm pretty sure.

Cuan K - 9 years ago

All the surfing in this vid rock! Big ups...

fnog9 - 9 years ago

3:43 it seems like the lips of mavericks waves get more hang time than any other wave in the world. is there truth to that? that water takes a long time to fall. i mean, the wave at 5:32 is bigger than mavericks, but to me it seems the mavericks crash like no other,

Cole - 9 years ago

The biggest wave I've ever been into (Walked into) was about 4 feet. It wasn't very strong. I'm about 4'9. My friend saw 11 foot waves at thr Outer Banks but there was a syorm coming or wuteva..

Hineskitt Velvett - 9 years ago

I didn't know Elissa Steamer surfed

TheRiffraff1968 - 9 years ago

at 6.44 that is the heaviest thing ive ever seen hands down !

Peace, Justice & Love - 9 years ago

Holy Jesús

Nicky D - 9 years ago

6:00 only people with balls could surf a wave that big

Yatesyyy - 9 years ago

+Reflex Point Belharra, France is the wave at 6:00 :)

Reflex - 9 years ago

Was that Mavericks?

Clint Ventriglia-Hill - 9 years ago

You gotta have a couple screws loose to surf theses waves... just WOW

Pedro - 9 years ago

How do they hold their breath for so long, like if it was me i was done for 10 sec
i wish i could be under water longer do you have any tips?

wtf old - 9 years ago

Surfers who go through training are trained to hold their breaths for 3 minutes.

Pedro - 9 years ago

+Gurucha
like i can do it pretty well but only when my heart rate is normal when i`m surfing my heart is going very fast so i lose my oxigen fast as well

Gurucha - 9 years ago

+Ush Slime Just hold your breath for as long as you can. Do that a couple dozen times a day and you'll be sweet.

100. comment for Greatest Wipeouts: The Best of 2014

Nuck Chorris - 9 years ago

They say "LIKE" so often xDD
Like:
"It was LIKE, you know, LIKE, the wave was LIKE, and i was LIKE, and the wave hit LIKE...

They may be good surfers, but their mind is like...you know, like...:D

Who is P.O.V 2.0 - 6 years ago

Yeah it pisses me off
Unless there Any good

Marcus De Villiers - 7 years ago

Nuck Chorris I just liked Liked your comment bro

jprzcrprz - 8 years ago

+Nuck Chorris ............My first thought EXACTLY....seems this generation picks it up and carries it through life, passing it along as they go. Take out all the "Likes" and the interview runs half as long.

Chris S - 8 years ago

+Nuck Chorris well, they are athletes. Last time I checked football and basketball players weren't winning any awards for speech and debate either. Judge them by what they do in their field. And if you think it's easy, just go out on a double or triple overhead day.

Pedro Gordinho - 9 years ago

I don't know if these guys are crazy, courageous or crazy courageous to surf these waves.

Pedro Gordinho - 9 years ago

This may sound stupid but with such advanced technology that we have today, isn't there some kind of oxygen breading device, small enough to "attach" to the swimsuit ?. And Im not even talk about those suits that racing bikers are testing that when they fall, the suit inflates a protective "ballon" around the person. Probably waves like this would blow up the ballon but I think it could work.

Mihai Pruna - 8 years ago

they tried the oxygen idea early on but abandoned it when self inflating vests became available.

Mr Grape Butter - 8 years ago

+Pedro Gordinho All of the guys on the video talk about getting rah-dolled. You can't move anything your just getting thrown around. Plus most wouldn't or in the state of mind to think of the "mouth piece". And I feel like having a big, bulky oxygen receptical in your back would make it way harder to surf. I don't know, it's a good idea though.

Pedro Gordinho - 8 years ago

+Erik Iida Imagine this....On your back you have a very small oxygen recipiente. From that recipiente, a thin hose would go from there trough your arm and it would end in your hand in a mouth piece.
Sure the wave is extremely powerful but having a last resort of oxygen is better than not having one and Im pretty sure one could reach his hand with his mouth / take the hand to the mouth.
If I had the courage to surf these waves, I wouldn't do it without some system like this one we are "dreaming" about.

Erik Iida - 8 years ago

The wave spins you so so so hard that you kind of fell like you are being ripped apart. During that motion trying to find something simply wouldnt be possible.

Mihai Pruna - 9 years ago

The hood only covers your chin and having a tube stuck to that would probably be uncomfortable . I'm an engineer and surfer and I will continue to think of a solution but so far I have not come up with anything practical :)

Pedro Gordinho - 9 years ago

+Mihai Pruna I never did scuba diving and because of that I not sure but I think if you get your mouth with water, when you put the mouth piece on and breath out, the water will get out. Again, Im not sure if its like this for real but it makes sense. Some surfers use a wetsuit hat and you could do a mouth piece in that hat next to your mouth. This is all wishful thinking but it could work.

Mihai Pruna - 9 years ago

I'd like to see them try during a wipeout. Unless the surfer has the presence of mind to dive deeper during the wipeout and escape the washing machine, I don't think the task can be accomplished . I've only wiped out on small waves where I was not held down and I don't think I could find a grab a mouthpiece without my mouth filling with water first

Pedro Gordinho - 9 years ago

+Mihai Pruna Have you ever seen a person scuba dive?. They can take out the mouth piece and put it back again because you can make air come out and prevent water from coming in. Im pretty sure this is feasible.

Mihai Pruna - 9 years ago

+Pedro Gordinho they wear self inflating suits, but I have been thinking about the oxygen idea and I don't think it's feasible, you can't just bite the mouthpiece and draw air ( and not water) during a wipeout

Sonmi Norimitsuu - 9 years ago

Me and my son are just about to get into surfing in the UK he is 11 and I am 42 :-) can anyone give us some feed back with reference to us being safe and hints and tips, respect. mc=?

Sonmi Norimitsuu - 9 years ago

Bryce, thank you so much you are a gentleman and I love the streamline "if in doubt, don't go out" ;-)

Bryce Yoshida - 9 years ago

Ask experienced surfers about the beach and waves and for tips on getting out, undertow,rip currents, if its shallow or deep and if its sand of reef, etc.Watch the waves for a good 10 minutes to identify hazards.Also stay within your comfort zone and always wait your turn in the lineup.Anything above 5-6 ft be prepared to hold your breath.Remember this though, if in doubt don't go out.

blank blank - 9 years ago

I cant believe people live though this kind of punishment.

Xvs - 7 years ago

blank blank because it's fun

JIMJAMSC - 9 years ago

I was a lifeguard in Myrtle Beach and saw my share of partial and full paralysis injuries. These were mostly body surfing/floats/boogies boards novices who went face first off of a 1-3 ft wave onto a dirt/shell bottom. We had so many broken legs,arms,collisions etc that eventually skim boards were banned and eventually frisbees and footballs. No alcohol,glass,loud music.. Not much left to do other than sweat off that hangover.Hell you do not even need 30 ft + waves to get injured at the beach.But I just assume get racked up riding a monster that snapping my neck on a 3ft sand break.

Cole - 9 years ago

I was at Myrtle Beach last week. Went in some 3-5 foot waves.

Giuliano Perrino - 9 years ago

+Nicky DeGirolamo Thank You AJ LEE I am a sasha banks namoi paige guy Search on youtube but it's a board that you throw on the beach were the waves end

JIMJAMSC - 9 years ago

A great way to get hurt. Small smooth board that you run at full speed,jump on it and go across the shallow surface or straight out into the chop. you know that thin layer of water that rushes over the sand when a wave rolls in. Or some use them on pools of water left behind at low tide. Works best on shallow, sandy beaches.

Nicky D - 9 years ago

+JIMJAMSC whats a skim board

Ucanca Tawe - 9 years ago

Woow !!

rufuszero08 - 9 years ago

surfing is dangerous

Maxi Vargas - 9 years ago

I guess in some way when they fell, and the forces of these waves come, they are the happiest people in the world.

Peter Charlesworth - 9 years ago

6:25 takes the prize - he had zero board speed when he came off then the ocean just unloaded. Looks like a Deep SW Vic bomb

Ricky P - 9 years ago

I'm surprised none of these guys exploded to bits and pieces...

matisyahup613 - 9 years ago

I live in NJ in my late teens and early 20's I would surf the jersey shore. The biggest wave I ever caught was probably in the 5-7 foot range. I was surprised just how much power is in a wave of even that size. What these guys even attempt to do is just insane. Yes they are elite surfers, but they are not afraid of death. Gotta give them a lot of respect for the danger they put themselves in just to get some good footage.

jerseybass'n'surf - 6 years ago

i had a wipeout at metro in atlantic city on a 9ft day and blew out my eardrum

Benjamin Wilson - 7 years ago

matisyahup613 sandy hook gang

αηנ - 7 years ago

Im from jersey too and i surf in ocean, and deal. The waves on average are pretty small ranging from 1 - 5 feet though.

edit - quick story though ahah, the other day i was out at the beach and a way bigger set rolled in with like 8 foot waves which suprised me soo much and i got a total pounding lol!

pbaylis1 - 7 years ago

I hear you man. We think we're gonna die when a 7-footer hits us. These guys are just something else. When they are verbally describing the thrashing they get, you just think words can't do it justice.

Smart Pranks - 7 years ago

Boston Leier hey bro I'm almost 12 and I'm getting a surf board soon do u have any tip I'm also a long and stake boarder so I can balance

Boston Leier - 8 years ago

yeah im 12 the wipe out when i was 11 it happened on a heavy 9 footer i just slipped skipped once and the white wash kept me under for a while you come out with that big breath hoping another waves isn't coming after that I came in a thought at how much power the ocean holds im just getting better at surfing and im hoping for a 10ft wipe out this year just because there thrilling

matisyahup613 - 8 years ago

Manasquan inlet, and Long Beach Island. But you can only get surf during storms. In its natural state the NJ surf is like a lake

scarface12347 - 8 years ago

Are there many surf spots round NJ? I never really pinned our state as a surf state.

Aint1S - 9 years ago

my worse was a solid swell at 15' when we check the report in the early AM, but when we were out in the water it had gone up to about 20's...
looked like Billy Kemper's perdido wave and the same gut wrenching sand bodyslam... never could get off the bottom in that heavy wetsuit and took 5 on the had trying to breach the surface and the foam.
I was giving up and then it lulled out long enough for me to surface without my board, it tore the leash!
an hour later, I got tossed over and with the board on the flats and went head first into it. Still have that board with profile of my head and forearm indentions on the bottom... then I left ASAP!

I can respect these wipeouts... got the shakes thinking of mine! Prior, I'd usually spend my days in had high +/- or lower aerial type surf.... the date stuff.

Sko Bird - 9 years ago

+aznerd999 Yeah the highest run-up ive serfed was about 12-14 feet. I look at some of the waves in this video, and i would be shitting my pants if i even saw this big of a wave coming towards me. I'd prolly shit my pants if i was on the beach and saw a wave that big lmao.

aznerd999 - 9 years ago

+matisyahup613 Yeah its insane. I tried surfing an 8 footer the other day and the impact destroyed me. I had water in my ears for a few days after

ELPaso1990TX - 9 years ago

Great video

Jackie Brown - 9 years ago

I Love To SURF but one thing is for sure i dont like getting vana in my feet

chanctonbury63 - 9 years ago

FAAAAAAACK !!!! Forget the guy about to get dumped on. Look at the guy paddling out (or up!). Sheeeet!

babiesmakinbabies - 9 years ago

7:15 ugh...his right leg.

Nicolas Cage - 8 years ago

+babiesmakinbabies yeah, thats what i was lookin at too

kid gloves - 9 years ago

nasty..

I Love Pizza - 9 years ago

What happened to the cool and manly surfers? Half of these guys seem like midgets and druggie fags who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

atmosphere Adr - 6 years ago

You are are so wrong about these guy's, certainly about jamie mitchell , he didn't get towed in at 5:56 . He won the Nazare challenge last year , all paddle

John Sullivan - 9 years ago

+I Love Pizza No one was surfing Shipsterns in 50's or 60' or 70's or much of the 80's and only became a 'thing' in late 90's. I doubt early surfers thought it would ever be possible (to ride the big big days).

Liam Jamieson - 9 years ago

+FM tru

FM - 9 years ago

+Liam Jamieson Just ignore this guy, he is a pathetic internet troll who tries to make his fat ass feel better by bringing others down. Which doesn't happen.

I Love Pizza - 9 years ago

+Liam Jamieson Because most of them are short. Volleyball players are taking over and getting the women.

I Love Pizza - 9 years ago

+FM Calm down tranny

Liam Jamieson - 9 years ago

Just curious, what makes you say that they are midgets?

FM - 9 years ago

You have a special kind of autism

I Love Pizza - 9 years ago

+Liam Jamieson Semi true but a lot of people can hold their breath a long time and I don't think these guys are anything special in and out of the water other than being slightly crazy. They're still midgets and weak to bigger/taller people and I think this is the only way that they can feel big is by being towed into a wave. I don't see them doing 360s off of normal waves like I do down in socal. These guys have all of the latest technology and they're getting towed in. The real legends of this stuff are the short haired guys from the 50s and early 60s that were doing this stuff on inferior boards. Now anyone can be towed around. I agree it takes balls but some of these guys are just crazy in their heads thinking that they're better than the average wave surfer who has more skills then them. I can respect Kelly Slater and a few others but these other guys are just trying to make up for their suckiness in normal surfing by doing this, trying to get a name for themselves.

Liam Jamieson - 9 years ago

+I Love Pizza These men are professional big wave surfers who train immensely to take on gnarly conditions like these. They can hold their breath for minutes at a time, and are incredibly strong and fit. Go look up some of these guys/big wave surfers in general before saying something ignorant like "they don't know what the fuck they're doing"

Gabriel Traveler - 9 years ago

Woulda been nice though if there were subtitles with the guy's names.

Gabriel Traveler - 9 years ago

Wow, that was gripping, thanks.

illusion887 - 9 years ago

so gnar

Roan Dillon - 9 years ago

This takes balls

toxichorse - 9 years ago

I get hit by a 5 foot wave and get worked lol , all these guys are insane

LVBrother's - 7 years ago

toxichorse Is sarcasm no?

Victor Graphique - 9 years ago

HECTIC!!!!!

Winstan - 9 years ago

5:56 strikes me as the biggest motherfucking wall of water!

T Rizz - 9 years ago

Big Balls to even try any of those waves

Donald Shuemake - 9 years ago

Luv it

ricardo alberto - 9 years ago

muitos tubarões no mar, depois de entrenta las..Dificil saída do mar sem machucar nada.

ricardo alberto - 9 years ago

As maiores ondas a serem surfadas, pelos surfistas

Grahame Lamblamb - 9 years ago

yeah being churned and twisted inside a wave for a minute before you get to breath air again takes a certain type of surfer and ive been in a few big ones and one big wave with a shark that hit me on my board ,respect nature

Grahame Lamblamb - 9 years ago

ok no problemo

Navada Miles - 9 years ago

Uhm. Hahaha, my toddler got a hold of my phone earlier! Clearly she digs your vid!

Grahame Lamblamb - 9 years ago

sorry I don't know text lingo but yes it hurt like hell

Navada Miles - 9 years ago

U*&?&dOaccbn0

jonnebanan - 9 years ago

And it was just like...

Robby Wilski - 9 years ago

Some basic rules is to have a surf buddy such that you surf with at least one other person. That way a shark might eat him instead of you. Tow in surfing or taking a boat out helps to challenge big waves that would otherwise not be surfed. That way people can take a bigger bite than they can handle. The huge secret is that 8-9 foot faces is ideal by far, no constant survival surf, ability to still do off the lips and floaters and thus it takes the pros right to the maximum enough to clearly show the differences between their styles.

Luke Melby - 9 years ago

alex gray's wasnt that bad at all to be honest. dont know how he didnt penetrate and make it out the back when he landed. his wave was maybe a 3/4 the size of half of these too

Diana A - 9 years ago

salute surfers

bjaminbjamin - 9 years ago

Scary shit. Specially shipstern

magorkel - 9 years ago

+james shepherd discretion is the better part of valor. I've stood on the shore and watched 15' Newport cuz that's where my skill level put me.

james shepherd - 9 years ago

Been to shippers neve had the balls to actually get off the boat an surf it

magorkel - 9 years ago

shippies is mutant

juan fo - 9 years ago

So gnarly man.

Ian Fletcher - 9 years ago

alex gray was hilarious. "All the sudden I'm Air Jordan" haha

gbean - 9 years ago

These were the lucky ones.
My friend Kirk passmore wasn't.
May he RIP.

FB21Beast - 6 years ago

R.i.p

Chase Coquet - 6 years ago

gbean harsh

hopokins - 6 years ago

sorry to hear.

Jake Oliak - 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing

Perfect Bros - 7 years ago

gbean lol

BRDY. - 7 years ago

6:43 the blood in the wave

Hunter Smith - 7 years ago

Lmao

Dominic Lusardi - 7 years ago

gbean sorry for your loss

Hummus - 7 years ago

Sorry about that

AndrewoidX - 7 years ago

gbean I feel bad for him :,(

LukeL40 - 7 years ago

Same as my dad

Kayla Thomas - 7 years ago

gbean God bless

DontAsk - 7 years ago

gbean hang in there bro

Tony - 7 years ago

So sorry ❤️

Smart Pranks - 7 years ago

gbean RIP seems to formal let's say rest in peace kirk

AcidCracker - 7 years ago

Wow, well, again I am truely sorry. Kirk seemed like a good guy.

May he RIP

gbean - 7 years ago

AcidCracker I had met & hung out with him a couple weeks prior to his accident.

AcidCracker - 7 years ago

Oh, you knew him? I read about him, I'm truly sorry for you loss RIP

whydotheheathensrage - 8 years ago

+gbean I used to knee board Brenneckes Beach on the south sure of Kauai. Got hung up a wave one day and it complete destroyed my hip I ended up getting a total hip replacement. Waves are powerful, and the injuries happen in an instant. Try to wipe out feet first and not head first, and I know at times this is easier said than done.

Koby Wood - 9 years ago

+21 RB I live in Carlsbad!

Reed Schmitt - 9 years ago

+Jordy Burt allegator rock. Surfer didn't appear to have an inflatable wetsuit. Terrible tragedy. RIP

Jordy Burt - 9 years ago

Where was he surfing?

nikko baron - 9 years ago

+gbean my uncle went to his high school in carlsbad and played pop warner football on his team

Luis Esteves - 9 years ago

Try to see nazaré (portugal) wipeout...

tiffsaver - 9 years ago

Every man who endured these wipeouts should be immediately be given a Purple Heart. Period.

magorkel - 8 years ago

+tiffsaver dumbass of the year right here.

tiffsaver - 8 years ago

+TheBitcoinArmy
PRETTY stupid?? Any trailer trash GI Joe who ships out for a Middle Eastern war deserves what they're going to get. These aren't "heroes," they're brain dead military robots.

magorkel - 9 years ago

dont drink the koolaid!